According to legend, Shi Hao, the prime minister of Southern Song Dynasty, lived by Dongqian Lake and was the most filial. His mother Ye Shi is a devout Buddhist and has always wanted to make a pilgrimage to Mount Putuo in the South China Sea. Because of her old age and blindness, it is very inconvenient to cross the ocean. Shi Hao called local famous craftsmen to dig holes here and set up Guanyin Dojo. Dong Cheng welcomes his mother to disembark. Wandering in Dongqian Lake, pretending to sail in the East China Sea. Three days later, I went to Yu Xia and cheated Putuo, realizing my mother's great wish.
Wang Anshi, Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, was an outstanding thinker, politician and writer in the history of China. Li Qing seven years (AD 1047), at the age of 27, served as the magistrate of Yinxian County. Dongqian Lake was restored in Li Qing in eight years, benefiting 333 square kilometers of farmland.
He is full of ambition to help the people, and his ambition is great. At the beginning of his tenure, he went deep into the county town for field research. In that year 1 1 month, travel-stained, braving the cold and stepping on the frost, we set out from the county seat and went to the left boundary of Wanling Township (now Qiu 'ai Town) to see the masonry chiseling, "looking into the mountain", "Xialing Rock" and "pumice" in the "Holy Trace Mountain" (now five townships). "Then I went to Wu Dong, moored under the ship weir (now Dongqianhu Town), passed Wufeng (now Hengxi Town), arrived at the creek (now Yinjiang Town) in the middle of the night, and saw the new canal and the flood bay. Sunset is like a forest village (now Hengjie Town), and the quality is clear. People in Taoyuan and Sao townships (now Gao Qiao Town) took their things for themselves. And wrote the famous book "Travel Notes of Yin Xian Jing". Then he wrote a letter to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi transshipment ambassador, stating the importance of water conservancy and making a water control plan. The first is the renovation of Dongqian Lake, which organized and led100000 migrant workers to remove weeds, set up lake boundaries, build dams, break evil ponds, renovate seven weirs and nine ponds, limit the outflow of lake water, and guard against tides (from Xiaojiang high tide to Yindong five towns), thus relieving the suffering of farmers around the lake area and seven towns in Zhenhai, Yinxian county. Since then, "the weather is not terrible", "seven townships and three cities (Yin, Zhen and Feng) have been affected" and "the summer is very dry, and the soldiers don't know that their year is not smooth". The fields in Dongxiang harvest year after year, and folk inscriptions carry roads. As Chen Yi, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, said in "Thoughts on Reading Wang's Travel Notes of Yinxian Classics":
Gong Jing Wu Yin, a scholar.
The stone platform is the model, and the king of the building is Confucianism.
Pay attention to water conservancy and write down the details after swimming.
Drought and flood cut people's lives and ran back and forth.
At that time, the young crop law benefited farmers in the village.
Wang Anshi served as a magistrate in Yinxian County for three years, not only building water conservancy projects, but also lending money to the people at low interest rates, establishing joint insurance, stabilizing prices and establishing county schools, which accumulated valuable experience for carrying out political reform in the country in the future.
As one of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties", Wang Anshi is good at writing and likes to make friends with literati. So a "Xiting" was built in the back garden of the county government as a place to write. When I left Yin, I wrote a poem "Dengyue State Tower" to express my attachment to Yin County:
Mountains are evergreen, water is white, and people grow up in a country with mountains and water.
The poor guest has no fixed place and dreams of going back to the north for three years.
However, until his later years, he still couldn't realize his long-cherished wish of "coming back here sooner or later", but he was always bitter and attached to it. In his poem Yi Yin, he wrote again:
The painting and biography of Mingzhou city wall still recalls a boat in Xiting.
It's not difficult to get old, but it was still romantic at that time.
Sha Menghai (1900- 1992) is a calligrapher and seal engraver. Formerly known as Wen Ruo, it was named Shacun, Shihuang and Lansha. Shacun, Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province. In his early years, he studied classical literature from Feng and calligraphy and seal cutting from Wu Changshuo. He has served as professor of Chinese Department of Zhejiang University, honorary curator of provincial museum, tenured professor of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, vice chairman of China Calligraphers Association, honorary director and consultant, chairman of Zhejiang Calligraphers Association, honorary chairman, president of Xiling Printing Society, and president of Xiling Painting and Calligraphy Institute. , known as the leading figure in calligraphy. Calligraphy begins with seal script, then captures the tablet, copies it at will and appreciates its style. After middle age, I wrote more cursive scripts, learned from others, mastered everything, and acted according to my own wishes, so I could be dense, varied, magnificent and unique. There are not many seal cutting works, and they advocate simplicity all the way, and they are not specific. He is the author of Sha Menghai's Essays on Books, Lanshage's Seal Calligraphy, Sha Menghai's Book Spectrum, Indian Studies History, Sha Menghai's Calligraphy Collection, Sha Menghai's Original Cursive Calligraphy Collection, and China's Calligraphy History Catalogue.